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Archive box 00323, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne. 59.06.22

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick McCoy, 1859-06-22. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1850-9/1859/59-06-22-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne bot & zool Garden,
22. June 59
My dear Prof M Coy
I beg to send you 124 sp. of plants for your class ground
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See Ducker (1986).
to begin with, vize
Thalamiflorae

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23 spec.
Calyocflorae

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48 =
Carolliflorae

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34 =
Monochlamys 11 =
Monocotyledonae

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It will be best not to send too many at a time, until you have disposed of these.
There are also some hundred additional spec. ready for your herbarium, but they require to be glued up, for which there will be not time in my office until the planting season is over. If you can manage to have them glued up in the Museum, I can send them at once.
The Cuttings of Saxe-Gothaea &c are not yet sufficiently grown to be delivered.
In regard to your flattering reference about bot. lectures in future to be perhaps delivered by me at the University, I would clearly state, that as my duties are already multifarious, I will rather promote and never hinder Mr Ralf
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Thomas Ralph.
to undertake this duty, if you not wish to retain the bot. lectureship yourself. I think however that Mr Ralf will have plenty of work for the museum, and by teaching the use of the microscope.
Pray sign the documents enclosed.
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Thanking you for the kind regard to me as far as my frail health is concerned
I remain, dear Sir,
your attached
Ferd Mueller.
I suppose you noticed the description of the M'Coya in N5 of my Fragmenta sent to you?
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Maccoya (M. plurisepalea), B59.04.04, p. 127.